[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Rich Alderson]

koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

> In article <md2t3r$kpk$2 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
> writes:

>> Ok, in 1974, what were the affordable options.  For small companies, a 
>> multi-million dollar IBM system was not feasible.  A quarter million 
>> dollar PDP-11 system was one of the better options.

>    For small companies timesharing on mainframes cold be, and often was
>    purchased.

One such company with which I am familiar leased (Tops-10) time from a school
district in Albuquerque in 1975, then later from a commercial firm in the same
city.  Only after the company grew and moved its headquarters to a Seattle
suburb did they purchase their own computer system, a DECSYSTEM-2020 (TOPS-20).

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